Tara Brach

We had a conversation that focused on my new upcoming workbook, the Courageous Love Workbook, Choosing to Love in Perilous Times.

So this book came out yesterday.

If you haven't ordered it, I hope you can do so and help spread the word.

During our time, we talked about what it means to be a bodhisattva, an awakening being, a caring being in these current times, what is really being asked of us.

And some of the themes included what it really means to be courageous and the relationship of engagement with the world and our spiritual path and how spirituality can be used to avoid engagement.

We also looked at how do we actively choose to love?

How do we learn to see basic goodness?

And we did an experiential reflection of shifting from head to heart space.

It was rich.

I hope you find that this serves you on your path.

Thank you.

Welcome, Tara.

Thanks, Tammy.

I'm really happy to be with you.

Yeah, well, I'm glad you're starting right there because I can feel the extremes of this time and

Maybe just to say in a very personal way, I can feel my nervous system and my heart very much impacted by both the speed of change, but even more by the destructiveness of the energies playing out.

I think of it like we're in this kind of spiraling vortex into a shadow where we're in this collective regression where, you know, fear and aggression and violence is really there.

And there's such a harshness to it, this violence against our fellow beings.

So I can feel in my own body and heart going into anger and blame and othering

regularly.